Can players use hacking software to gain an advantage or hack into the actual poker servers?
To answer the first question, I can only speculate, but my answer is no. A competent programmer would know that in order to make the game as secure as possible, the client (software on the player’s computer) should only be sent information about it’s own cards. Your computer is thus, on a “need to know basis”. The only time you need to know your opponents card is during showdown, so only then is your computer sent that information. If this programming practice is carried out, then you should never be able to know your opponent’s card ahead of time. So no, don’t even bother looking on the Internet for Party Poker cheats or whatever. What is a viable attack point for hackers however, are the actual poker servers. Since this FAQ is about poker and not hacking, I’m not going to get in-depth about the methods that hackers use, but the idea behind most attacks is to find an exploit or weakness in the software and gain administrative privileges (root). Given that most of the software in use b
